Sandbach, Cheshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Sandbach. You may be able to find further references to Sandbach in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Sandbach market town, parish and township, with railway station Bartholomew
SANDBACH a town, a township, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Sandbach.

Place Type of entry Source
Arclid township Bartholomew
ARCLID a township Imperial
Betchton township Bartholomew
BETCHTON a township Imperial
Blackden township Bartholomew
BLACKDEN a township Imperial
Bradwall township and seat Bartholomew
BRADWALL a township Imperial
BYLEY a township Imperial
Church Hulme township Bartholomew
Cotton township Bartholomew
COTTON a township Imperial
Cranage township Bartholomew
CRANAGE a township Imperial
ELWORTH a chapelry Imperial
Goostrey cum Barnshaw township Bartholomew
GOOSTREY-CUM-BARNSHAW a township-chapelry Imperial
Hassall township Bartholomew
HASSALL a township Imperial
Holmes Chapel village with railway station Bartholomew
LEESE a township Imperial
Sandbach Heath ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
SANDBACH HEATH a chapelry Imperial
Twemlow township Bartholomew
WHEELOCK a village, a township, and a chapelry Imperial

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Elworth 0 2
Sandbach Heath 0 2
Wheelock 0 4
Elton 0 2
Bradwall 0 2
Arclid 0 2
Moston 0 2
Hassall 0 2
Betchton 0 2
Parme 0 1
Tetton 0 2
Warmingham 0 2
Haslington 0 2
Mooresbarrow 0 2
Brereton 2 1
Smallwood 0 2
Church Coppenhall 0 3
Sproston 0 2
Kinderton 1 2
Barthomley 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Sandbach. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
SANDBACH John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

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  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.